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How to follow the 2015 Giro Rosa live, & watch the highlights

There’s only one Grand Tour for women, only one race allowed to run for over a week, and only one race that really gets into the Italian mountains, and it’s almost time…. are you ready for the Giro Rosa?

The race starts with a 2km evening prologue on Friday 3rd July in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and finishes with a Queen Stage from Verbania to San Domenico on Sunday 12th.

UPDATE! The team presentation on Thursday 2nd July will be streamed on livestream from 19:00 Euro CEST (6pm UK BST, 1pm North American EDT, 4am Aussie AEDT) – and maybe more from the first 2 stages in Slovenia will be shown there too? UPDATE! There’s not, but if you missed the team presentation, it’s still there at that link. I saw that via Yolanda Álvarez, thank you!

The prologue will be streamed live, at 19:30 Euro CEST (6:30pm UK BST, 1:30pm North American EDT, 4:30am Saturday Australian AEDT)

UPDATE! While the prologue was scheduled to be live, as of today (Friday) it’s off the schedule again, and we’ll get highlights only, at 22:35 Euro CEST (9:35pm UK BST; 4:35pm North American EDT, 6:35am Saturday Aussie AEDT) on Italian tv station RAI Sport 2 (different link here), which is geo-restricted, but there’s streaming on Cycling Fans, and you can watch with your favourite VPN solution (you can use something like Tunnelbear set to Italy, or buy a VPN like WiTopia for just $5.99 a month). Many apologies if you, like me, were looking forward to seeing it live, but the moral of the story is keep a very close eye on the schedules….

Then, the rest of the race has hour-long highlights every day on RAI Sport 2. The times change, so check out the RAI TV guide (scroll down to RAI Sport 2 on the left hand side) – times are in CEST, so BST +1, EDT + 6, AEDT -8 . The videos tend to appear on Youtube, and there are usually short highlights on the Giro Rosa’s youtube – and I’ll put up daily posts with all the videos I find, if you want to catch up, and put them into my 2015 Giro Rosa playlist (here’s the one I made last year).

Follow live

If you want to follow the racing action live, there are various ways to do it – UPDATE and we’ll have live updated results from the Stage 8 ITT

Add anything else you see to the comments, or tell me on twitter, and I’ll update. I hope you love the race as much as I do!

I’m funded to do this kind of thing by my wonderful Patreon supporters – thank you so much! You can join them here from as little as $2 a month – it helps keep me sane while I hunt down all the women’s cycling information I can find!

Sarah – you are amazing for the work that you do. It’s greatly appreciated! After 20 years of following men’s cycling I have started following women’s cycling this year only to find out that the women’s races are much more exciting to watch than the men’s. It’s fantastic!